Day 6, Fire and accomplishment.

We were back at the same site as the previous day, putting mold-resistant drywall in a house. This was the last day of work for the Maine folks, here's a picture of them with a small piece of drywall behind them:



They left Saturday morning for Maine... after fixing a flat tire.

But back to Friday... investigating a bit more, I found that the house, in the Gentilly section of town, had been pretty deep underwater. Time to play 'find the water level' again...



At one point we were returning some tools, and were just coming back to her house, and just as we arrived I saw black smoke... house fire smoke. Yep, a block a way a house that hadn't even been gutted had burst into flames, and was beginning to have the glass break. Of course I was not able to do anything about it except watch. Three engines and a ladder came, and were there for a couple of hours.



We went back inside and hung more venetian blinds until the homeowner came back with her 10 year old son. They were moving in, even though the place wasn't finished. There had been a shooting in front of the house they were living in across town... a man shot 14 times at 4 AM. So they were moving in to the new place early.



Dinner was at the St Charles Tavern, a local bar/diner that we decided was about our speed... simple local food.